This weeks edition of the Crown Heights Newspaper, available for print.
Click here to download the newspaper in PDF format.
This Weeks Crown Heights Newspaper
This weeks edition of the Crown Heights Newspaper, available for print.
This weeks edition of the Crown Heights Newspaper, available for print.
Click here to download the newspaper in PDF format.
Rabbi Y Paltiel fills Lefferts Shul, With Learning!
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Everyone heard that Chassidus has a lot to do with Davening, however the many Anash that filled Lefferts shul last night, to really understand it. Rabbi Yoseph Paltiel in his special style went through the elements of Tefilah that Chassidus puts a focus on and the elements that Chassidus brought to light and clearly differentiated between them.
More in the Extended Article
This weeks Living Torah, titled “A Friend's Memory” (Volume 48, Episode 192)
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Available in Hebrew, French and Russian in the Extended Article.
Mazal Tov! – Its A Boy!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Mendy and Breindy (nee Wolff) Dechter on the birth of their son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us mazaltov@crownheights.info
By Tamar Runyan
Academy Award winner Jon Voight, right, gives words of encouragement to wounded Israeli border policeman Aharon Gozlan in a meeting arranged by Chabad's Terror Victims Project. (Photo: Meir Dahan)
JERUSALEM, Israel — At many of his stops in Israel this week, Jon Voight attracted a sea of reporters and photographers. But for the Academy Award winner, his goodwill tour throughout the country was not about him: He came for the children.
American Actor Focuses on Children During Weeklong Tour of Israel
By Tamar Runyan
Academy Award winner Jon Voight, right, gives words of encouragement to wounded Israeli border policeman Aharon Gozlan in a meeting arranged by Chabad’s Terror Victims Project. (Photo: Meir Dahan)
JERUSALEM, Israel — At many of his stops in Israel this week, Jon Voight attracted a sea of reporters and photographers. But for the Academy Award winner, his goodwill tour throughout the country was not about him: He came for the children.
Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Moshe (ben R. Eliyahu) Cohen (Crown Heights) and Chana (bas R. Nosson) Grunblatt (Buenos Aires, Argentina) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Sunday night at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St, [entrance on Albany Ave].
News 12 Brooklyn
Editors Note: The reason this story was noticed by Brooklyn News 12 is due to your emails that you sent them!CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — Many members of the Crown Heights Jewish community say they are still angry about last Monday’s bus attack on President Street.
News 12 Video – School Bus Attacked
News 12 Brooklyn
Editors Note: The reason this story was noticed by Brooklyn News 12 is due to your emails that you sent them!
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — Many members of the Crown Heights Jewish community say they are still angry about last Monday’s bus attack on President Street.
Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yehuda Shurpin (Crown Heights) and Esti Shagalow (S Louis Park, MN) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Thursday night at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St, [entrance on Albany Ave].
The Chabad Club: Getting Past the Student Activity Hour
By Orit Cohen – Corsair Staff Writer
S. MONICA, CA — On a patch of grass next to the clock tower, Rabbi Eli Levitansky, advisor of the Chabad Club, stands in heated discussion with a few girls.
They argue points of Jewish belief, neither him nor the students letting go, as he gets into it, showing the students that he is passionate in what he stands for.
VICIOUS MESIRA: Blood Libel Lands Shomrim Member 12 Hours in Prison
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Binyomin Lifshitz, a volunteer in Shomrim and the publisher and editor of CrownHeights.info was arrested early yesterday as he and 6 other Shomrim members made an appearance in court following the incident where Shomrim were ambushed and attacked inside 749 Eastern Parkway.
5 months ago, Shomrim were called to 749 Eastern Pkwy because of a dispute over a bed, 3 Shomrim members who responded were ambushed and assaulted in the room by over 20 ‘tzfati’ bochurim and were forced to call for backup and police assistance. Click Here for that story.
Elements of the Shmira leadership along with their lawyer Levi ‘Paul’ Hubner set out on a mission that Motzoai Shabbos, and viciously masserd on as many as 9 Shomrim members, and incurring the arrest of 7 of them along with one member of Anash.
More in the Extended Article.
By Reuvena Leah Grodnitzky
Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein, co-director of the Tannenbaum Chabad House at Northwestern University and a volunteer chaplain with the local police force, talks with colleagues.
Not every rabbi uses his pastoral skills to counsel highway accident victims or prevent suicides. Fewer still are called upon to perform CPR or fire a weapon. But for Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis who serve their communities as volunteer police chaplains, such activities are a part of the job.
Police Chaplains View “Ministry of Presence” as a Supreme Responsibility
By Reuvena Leah Grodnitzky
Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein, co-director of the Tannenbaum Chabad House at Northwestern University and a volunteer chaplain with the local police force, talks with colleagues.
Not every rabbi uses his pastoral skills to counsel highway accident victims or prevent suicides. Fewer still are called upon to perform CPR or fire a weapon. But for Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis who serve their communities as volunteer police chaplains, such activities are a part of the job.
Tonight – Parsha Shiur by Rabbi Jacobson
Today, Wednesday, there will be a Shiur with Rabbi Yossi Jacobson which will be broadcast live over the Internet, on this weeks Parsha.
Click here to watch this weeks Shiur LIVE at 10 PM.
Or you can call 1-785-686-2400 Access code: 770770
Shluchim visit the Satmar Rebbe
MONROE, NY [CHI] — The Rebbe’s Shliach of Princeton,NJ, Rabbi Dovid Dubov, (and his two sons Sholom Ber- age 11 and Motty-age 9) with Rabbi Chaim Schapiro of Morristown, NJ had a visit with the Satmer Rebbe, Rabbi Aron Teitlebaum of Monroe, NY.
The purpose of the visit was to give him the entire set of Yalkut Moshiach Ugeula Al Hatorah- 25 volumes. The visit was very successful, he spoke to the Shluchim for aprox. 40 minutes. Some of the points that was discussed is as follows:
More pictures in the Extended Article!
Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Moshe Barouk (Miami, Florida) and Hana Sellem (S Agathe, Quebec / Paris, France) on their engagement.
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us mazaltov@crownheights.info
Raid Could Make Postville a Ghost Town
Kaal TV Channel 6
POSTVILLE, IA — The immigration raid in Iowa we told you about on Monday is being called one of the largest of its kind in U.S. history.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials arrested 390 people from the Postville Kosher Meatpacking Plant in northeast Iowa.
Tonight, Wednesday, Tes Iyar Rabbi Yoseph Paltiel will talk on a subject of interest, The innovations of Chassidus. The topic includes: Did Chassidus create, change focus, or both? What makes on a Chossid? How is the learning of a Chossid different?
IYH tonight, Wednesday 9:15pm at Bais Eliyahu Nochum, 672 Lefferts Ave, [between Albany and Troy Ave].
Tonight – Rabbi Yoseph Paltiel on an Incredible Subject
Tonight, Wednesday, Tes Iyar Rabbi Yoseph Paltiel will talk on a subject of interest, The innovations of Chassidus. The topic includes: Did Chassidus create, change focus, or both? What makes on a Chossid? How is the learning of a Chossid different?
IYH tonight, Wednesday 9:15pm at Bais Eliyahu Nochum, 672 Lefferts Ave, [between Albany and Troy Ave].
EJ Tansky - Lubavitch.com
A traveler in the South Island meets up with Chabad and wraps tefillin.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A kosher restaurant in the Christchurch, NZ? You bet, says Chabad’s Rabbi Mendy Goldstein of New Zealand. For Israeli backpackers who tromp the country’s pristine South Island each year, the new restaurant will be a boon.
“It pains us to see people eating non-kosher because they have no other choice,” said Sara Goldstein, co-director of the kiwi Chabad.
Chabad To Open Kosher Restaurant in Christchurch
EJ Tansky – Lubavitch.com
A traveler in the South Island meets up with Chabad and wraps tefillin.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A kosher restaurant in the Christchurch, NZ? You bet, says Chabad’s Rabbi Mendy Goldstein of New Zealand. For Israeli backpackers who tromp the country’s pristine South Island each year, the new restaurant will be a boon.
“It pains us to see people eating non-kosher because they have no other choice,” said Sara Goldstein, co-director of the kiwi Chabad.
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